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Research Interests and Representive Publications

Artificial Intelligence: Support Vector Machine (SVM); kernel methods; artificial neural networks; genetic algorithm; feature selection and fusion; Bayesian methods; Hidden Markov Model (HMM); multi-label classification; statistical learning theory; multi-score learning, multiple classifier system, decision fusion, data mining.

(2017) Jan, A. , Meng, H. , Gaus, Y. and Zhang, F. Artificial Intelligent System for Automatic Depression Level Analysis through Visual and Vocal Expressions , IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. [DOI] (IEEE Open Access, Online: Jul. 2017)

(2016) Meng H., Bianchi-Berthouze N., Deng Y., Cheng J., Cosmas J.,Time-delay neural network for continuous emotional dimension prediction from facial expression sequences, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 46 (4): 916-929. [DOI](IEEE Open Access) [Bib TeX]

(2005) Farquhar, J., Hardoon, DR., Meng, H., Shawe-Taylor, J. and Szedmák, S., Two view learning: SVM_2K, theory and practice , Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)[PDF] [Bib TeX]

Human Computer Interaction: affective computing; emotional states recognition; facial expression analysis; multi-modality interaction; movement modelling, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, ambient intelligence.

(2016) Aung M., Kaltwang S., Romera-Paredes B., Martinez B., Singh A., Cella M., Valstar M., Meng H., Kemp A., Shafizadeh M., Elkins A., Kanakam N., Rothschild A., Tyler N., Watson P., Williams A., Pantic M., and Bianchi-Berthouze B., The automatic detection of chronic pain-related expression: requirements, challenges and a multimodal dataset, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.7(4): 435-451.[DOI](IEEE Open Access) [Bib TeX]

(2014) Meng H., Bianchi-Berthouze N., Affective state level recognition in naturalistic facial and vocal expressions, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 44(3): 315-328. [PDF] [DOI](IEEE Open Access) [Bib TeX].

(2012) Gao Y. Bianchi-Berthouze, N. and Meng H., What does touch tell us about emotions in touchscreen-based gameplay? ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 19(4). [PDF][DOI][Bib TeX]

Embedded Systems: FPGA; smart phone, microcontroller; DSP; game consoles.

(2010) Meng, H., Appiah, K., Yue, S., Hunter, A., Hobden, M., Priestley, N., Hobden, P. and Pettit, C., A modified model for the Lobula Giant Movement Detector and its FPGA implementation, Computer Vision and Image Understanding 114 (11) : 1238- 1247 [PDF] [DOI] [Bib TeX]

(2008) Meng, H., Freeman, M., Pears, N. and Bailey, C., Real-time human action recognition on an embedded, reconfigurable video processing architecture, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing 3 (3) : 163- 176 [PDF] [DOI] [BibTeX]

Computer Vision: biologically inspired vision systems; dynamic motion feature extraction; human action recognition; gesture recognition; object detection; object tracking; visual surveillance; embedded vision systems.

(2012) Appiah, K., Hunter, A., Dickinson, P. and Meng, H., Implementation and Applications of Tri-State Self Organising Maps on FPGA, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 22 (8) : 1150- 1160 [PDF] [DOI] [Bib TeX]

(2010) Appiah, K., Hunter, A., Dickinson, P. and Meng, H., Accelerated hardware video object segmentation: From foreground detection to connected components labelling, Computer Vision and Image Understanding 114 (11) : 1282- 1291 [PDF] [DOI] [Bib TeX]

Digital Signal Processing: wavelet transform; digital filtering; statistical signal processing; medical signal processing (e.g. EMG, ECG, EEG); real-time signal processing, biomedical sensors.

(2014) Intzes I, Meng H., and Cosmas J. , Technology of swallowable capsule for medical applications, International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology, 14(4): 277-296.

(2006) Abel, E., Meng, H., Forster, A. and Holder, D., Singularity characteristics of needle EMG IP signals, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 53 (2) : 219- 225.

Image Processing: image compression; image acquisition, image object detection; large scale image categorization; image segmentation; real-time image processing.

(2009) Meng, H. and Pears, N., Descriptive temporal template features for visual motion recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters 30 (12) : 1049- 1058

(2004) Liu, L., Chen, N., Meng, H., Zhang, L., Wang, Z. and Chen, H., A VLSI architecture of JPEG2000 encoder, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits 39 (11) : 2032- 2040

For potential research collaborations, please see the opportunities.

Research Projects

Royal Society and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - Framework for image segmentation based on multi-scale feature learning, Research Exchange with Cost-share Scheme, Co-I, Mar. 2018 - Mar. 2020.
EU Horizon 2020 (H2020-ICT-2016-2) - IoRL: Internet of Radio Light (20 partners: https://5g-ppp.eu/iorl/), Co-I, Jun. 2017 - May 2020.
Royal Society and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - Differential Geometry and Deep Learning for Dynamic Facial Expression Analysis, Research Exchange with Cost-share Scheme (with Dr Huibin Li from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), PI, Mar. 2017 - Mar. 2019.
EPSRC - Image Analysis for Complex Data in Non Destructive Testing, Industrial CASE project with TWI Ltd, PI, 2016-2019.
Royal Academy of Engineering - Deep learning based artificial intelligence methods for fault detection in high speed railway applications, Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Scheme (with Professor Weihua Zhang from Southwest Jiaotong University, China), PI, Jun. 2016 - Aug. 2016.
Brunel Research Catalyst Fund, Research Visibility Award, PI, Nov. 2015.
Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) Scholarship (4‐year fully funded PhD studentship, Malaysia), PI, Mar. 2014 ~ Feb. 2018.
School of Engineering & Design/Thomas Gerald Gray PGR Scholarship, PI, Oct. 2013 - Sep. 2016. (PhD scholarship)
Brunel Research Initiative & Enterprise Fund - Automatic Emotional State Detection and Analysis on Embedded Devices, PI, Nov. 2012 - Oct 2013.
Royal Academy of Engineering – Real-time affective state monitoring via naturalistic facial expression on embedded systems, PI, (with Professor Yangdong Deng, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.), Jun. 2012 - Sep. 2013.
EPSRC - Emo&Pain: Pain rehabilitation: E/Motion-based automated coaching.(as a UCL honorary research associate, project offical website), 2010-2014.

Previous Research Projects

TSB - Basic Robust Architecture for Integrated Neural Sensors (BRAINS), 2007-2010.
DTI - Architectures Machines and Devices for Efficient Ubiquitous Systems (AMADEUS), 2005-2007.
EU FP5 - Learning for Adaptable Visual Assistants (LAVA), 2004-2005.
EPSRC - A New Approach to Diagnostic Signal Processing in Clinical EMG, 2001-2004.

Current Research Students

First Supervisor

Ioannis Intzes (PhD, 2012 -, PT)

Sebin Jung (PhD, 2015 -, PT)

Juvaria Syeda (PhD, 2016 - )

Zeng Fan (PhD, 2017 - )

Xiaowei Wang (PhD, 2018 -, PT)

Bodor Almatrouk (PhD, 2018 -)

Tianhao Wang (PhD, 2020 -)

Second Supervisor

Chuqi Cao (PhD, with Dr R. Swash)

Ivars Dzalbs (PhD, with Dr T. Kalganova)

Kareem Mohamed Sherif Ali Sayed Ali (PhD, with Prof J. Cosmas)

Babak Hosseininezhad Rahi (PhD, with Prof M. Li)

Nicole Hooker (PhD, with Prof K. Hone)

Sarfraz Hussain (PhD, with Prof M. Li)

Ioana Cretu (PhD, with Prof A. Khir)

Alumni

Baobing Zhang (PhD, 2020, Second Supervisor, with Prof M. Li)
Yi Liu (PhD, 2020, Second Supervisor, with Dr R. Swash)
Monica Simone Mendes Pereira (PhD, 2020, Second Supervisorm with Prof K. Hone)
Fan Zhang (PhD, 2019, First Supervisor)
Jingxin Liu (PhD, 2019, First Supervisor)
Rui Qin (PhD, 2019, First Supervisor)
Yona Falinie (PhD, 2018, First Supervisor)
Cheng Xu (PhD, 2018, Second Supervisor, with Prof J. Cosmas)
Asim Jan (PhD, 2017, First Supervisor)
Chao Liu (PhD, 2017, Second Supervisor, with Prof A. Nandi)
Saeed Turabzadeh (MPhil, 2015, First Supervisor)
Zhezhen Zhu (PhD, 2014, Second Supervisor, with Prof A. Nandi)